Dear all,
I'm forecasting health services utilization using Lee-Carter method.
 I have a routine to run LC method in R package, and I understood all steps
to model and forecasting the rates by this method, except two things:

1) how to adjust the estimated admission rates by the total number of
admissions in each year (similar to adjust specific mortality rates to
number of deaths),

2) how to incorporate the error in bx in the estimate. I know it`s by a
bootstraping method, but I can't understand how to deal with this in R
package. I'm working with a short time series - the only available period -
and because of this I think it's very important to incorporate this error in
the estimate.

Could anyone please help me with this, please?
I thank a lot if anyone could help me.
Sincerely,
Cristina

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